Psalms 41:1

Blessed is the one who considers the poor, for the Lord will deliver him in trouble. Compassion to the needy brings God's favor.

Cross-references · 25

• Prov 19:17He who has pity on the poor lends to Yahweh; he will reward him.
• Prov 14:21He who despises his neighbor sins, but blessed is he who has pity on the poor.
• 2 Cor 9:8–14And God is able to make all grace abound to you, that you, always having all sufficiency in everything, may abound to every good work.
• Acts 20:35In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
• Matt 25:34–39Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
• Ps 37:39–40But the salvation of the righteous is from Yahweh. He is their stronghold in the time of trouble.
• Jas 2:13For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
• Heb 6:10For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.
• Ps 37:19They shall not be disappointed in the time of evil. In the days of famine they shall be satisfied.
• Ps 112:9He has dispersed, he has given to the poor. His righteousness endures forever. His horn will be exalted with honor.
• Mark 14:7For you always have the poor with you, and whenever you want to, you can do them good; but you will not always have me.
• Isa 58:7–11Isn’t it to distribute your bread to the hungry, and that you bring the poor who are cast out to your house? When you see the naked, that you cover him; and that you not hide yourself from your own flesh?
• Gal 2:10They only asked us to remember the poor — which very thing I was also zealous to do.
• Ps 37:26All day long he deals graciously, and lends. His offspring is blessed.
• Ps 82:3–4“Defend the weak, the poor, and the fatherless. Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
• Deut 15:7–11If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;
• Luke 14:13–14But when you make a feast, ask the poor, the maimed, the lame, or the blind;
• Rev 3:10Because you kept my command to endure, I also will keep you from the hour of testing, which is to come on the whole world, to test those who dwell on the earth.
• Eccl 11:1–2Cast your bread on the waters; for you shall find it after many days.
• Job 29:12–16Because I delivered the poor who cried, and the fatherless also, who had no one to help him,
• 1 Th 5:14We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.
• Job 31:16–20“If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,
• Eccl 12:1Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;
• Ps 34:19Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but Yahweh delivers him out of them all.
• Prov 16:14The king’s wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.

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